Limiting Presidential Power: A Return To Constitutional Balance

Published September 21, 2021 The Constitution includes checks and balances in order to protect individual rights. But since the middle of the...

As California Goes . . .?

Pre-COVID, California governor Gavin Newsom touted his state’s policies as “America’s coming attractions.” Does that apply to the Golden...

The CIA Spent 20 Years On The Front Lines Of The War On Terror. It's Time For That To Change.

Inflation In The Shadow Of Debt

Lessons Of Freedom From 20 Years Of War Against Jihadism

American Spies Are Fighting the Last War, Again

America’s New Great-Power Competition With China

Published: September 2, 2021 Elizabeth Economy discusses China’s aggressive foreign policy. America must act to rein in China’s foreign policy...

Overcoming Our Crisis Of Confidence In Democracy

Published: August 24, 2021 From political upheaval and disinformation to rising inequality, an array of challenges threatens confidence in our...

Papier-Mâché Tiger

America’s inability to adequately game-plan and execute a clean withdrawal from Afghanistan brings into question the foresight and competency of...

To Defeat Adversaries In Cyberspace, America Must Go On Offense

Following our humiliating Afghanistan retreat, America’s rivals will amplify their assaults on our credibility and defenses. China could attack...

ESG Catch 22

The point of ESG investing is to lower the stock price and raise the cost of capital of disfavored industries, and therefore slow down their...

How Do Employers Recruit New Workers?

While data on the number of job openings and hires are readily available, data on how hires happen are less so. The Richmond Fed surveyed employers...

Is Our Military Woke, Broke Or Both?

The fall of Kabul is not the end, as Joe Biden seems to think, of the Afghanistan nightmare.  It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream....

Leaving Afghanistan: No Right Way To Do The Wrong Thing

The haunting image of a desperate Afghan man falling to his death from the fuselage of a departing U.S. C-17 military cargo plane will be forever...

Why We Failed In Afghanistan

Following the ignominious end to a 20-year effort, American foreign-policy elites must reassess their ambitions and assumptions.